Welcome

Welcome to Physics 211: Laboratory in Electronics and Waves,
taught by Suzanne Amador Kane, Jerry Gollub and Scott Shelley. The lab manual is
the only required text for the lab. All Lab Writeups are posted on Blackboard. Be sure to download and read the first lab and completed the pre-lab assignment due
at the first meeting (Sept. 3) If you have not preregistered, please email one of us to get added to Blackboard so you have access and so we can enable cardkey access to the lab.

Who should take Physics 211 lab? Everyone! In particular, this is the first of three upper-level labs required for the physics major and minor (Physics 211, 212 and either 316 or 326.) Typically you take this lab concurrently with Physics 213, our lecture-based course on Waves and Optics, but you can also take it later if that's a better match to your schedule. Because its subject material is so useful for astronomy, we urge our astronomy majors and minors to consider taking this lab as well, though it's not required.

In our lab course, you will start with some very fun and very practical electrical circuits labs that will develop your hands-on skills as experimentalists while also teaching you quite a bit of modern electronics. (Take Physics 316 later to take this to the next step and build your very own computer!) After that, you'll do some cool and exciting labs with optics, chaos, medical ultrasound imaging and resonance--a core organizing concept from the accompanying lecture course, Physics 213. We will work with the Physics 213 lecturer to coordinate topics as much as we can, and to relate our lab material to that course.

Meeting Times and Schedule

Labs: Thu 1:15-4:00 p.m. in Koshland INSC Harris
206 every week except the dates indicated below.
(Note: While you must attend all lab sessions, you are welcome to come in on your own at different times to work if
you wish. Make sure your card key has been enabled for access the first week.)

Always be in touch with your instructors both in class and outside, using the contact information above and our office hours. We anticipate frequent questions and conversations outside of class, so don't struggle fruitlessly alone!

If you are having trouble with the class, a peer tutoring system is available
here. Please check it
out if you think you might need a tutor.